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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding

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